I try to get all the members of my domain - using
dsget group "CN=Domain Users,CN=Users,DC=cms,DC=local" -members -expand
But it returns an empty result. How can this be? If I look up the Domain Users in the AD GUI and view its members, I get the full list without problems.
Why is the command not working?
It's just explained by the fact that the member attribute of Domain Users does not contain any user. This group looks like a dynamic group based on a query.
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I checked a few posts asked the similar questions before, but none works for my case, not sure if something wrong on my side or it's the AD.
So I have security group at path:
CN=MigratedUsers,OU=Azure Groups,OU=Security Groups,OU=National Organization,DC=abc,DC=firm,AD
And in the MigratedUsers group, there is a member property with a few AD users in the group.
I am trying to get the list of users, so I can iterate through them.
So in my base location I specified:
OU=Azure Groups,OU=Security Groups,OU=National Organization,DC=abc,DC=firm
For the LDAP Filter I have:
(&(objectCategory=user)(memberOf=CN=MigratedUsers,OU=Azure Groups,OU=Security Groups,OU=National Organization,DC=abc,DC=firm))
The result returned 0 records.
I tried other combinations such as (&(objectCategory=group)(CN=MigratedUsers)), it doesn't work either.
So, could anyone point out to me if anything in my query is wrong or I need to start checking something else like AD settings etc.
Thank you.
Your first filter looks fine :
(&(objectCategory=user)(memberOf=CN=MigratedUsers,OU=Azure Groups,OU=Security Groups,OU=National Organization,DC=abc,DC=firm))
But the search base is not, (it's a group search base, while you want to retrieve user entries). The user base should look like this :
OU=Users,OU=National Organization,DC=abc,DC=firm
You're searching for users, but you set the base of the search to:
OU=Azure Groups,OU=Security Groups,OU=National Organization,DC=abc,DC=firm
That tells it to only return users that are in the Azure Groups OU. I'm guessing that there are no users in that OU. Set the base of the search to the root of the domain (e.g. DC=abc,DC=firm), or just don't set it at all, since that will be the default.
Your first filter is the correct one (which has the full DN of the group).
I am trying to filter out employees from a specific OU via LDAP.
The problem is that the OU contains spaces.
By itself, with \20 between the respective words, this OU should be resolved and be able to be found.
Furthermore, there is no CN in the respective OU.
What I have tried so far is the following:
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(ou=test\20user\20accounts,dc=lab,dc=local))
Unfortunately I only get an empty output.
The searchbase is missing and i dont know how to implement it in the ldap query.
With Powershell i dont have any issues to get what i want:
Get-ADObject -LDAPFilter "(ObjectClass=user)" -SearchBase "ou=test\20user\20accounts,dc=lab,dc=local" -Properties * |`
? {$_.ObjectCategory -like "cn=Person*" }| select name,objectclass,ObjectCategory | fl
I appreciate any advice :)
Thanks in advance
To search for users in an OU, set the search root of your query (sometimes called Base DN) to the OU. It cannot be done in the filter.
The memberOf attribute is used for groups, not OU's.
You do not supply enough information to make an accurate assessment.
What are you looking for within OU=Test,User,Accounts,DC=Lab,DC=local?
"I wanna get all the members of the OU Test User Accounts"
This should get all "Users" (sAMAccountType=805306368) in the container "OU=Test,User,Accounts,DC=Lab,DC=local" (With some tweaking to fit your server and credentials)
ldapsearch -D "cn=exampleuser,example.com" -w secret -h server.example.com -b "OU=Test,User,Accounts,DC=Lab,DC=local" -s sub "(sAMAccountType=805306368)"
I'm trying to create a custom query in ADUaC to help me index administrators in my system. I've narrowed down security groups that I need to list the members of, but I'm misusing the 'memberOf' attribute in some way which breaks the query.
(objectClass=user)(objectCategory=user)(memberOf=*)
The above query works fine to return all users, but the when I change the wildcard to anything else (ex. (memberOf=*Administrators*)), the query returns no objects.
I have confirmed that there is a relevant Security Group for this query to get users from. I am aware that it does not work for Primary Groups or nested users, and I am simply trying to get it working on a basic level right now. Anyone know how to have the code return users that are a member of the security group?
Unfortunately, you cannot use the wildcard * character to filter distinguishedName attributes. The reason for this is the X.500 Standard.
http://www.ldapexplorer.com/en/manual/109010000-ldap-filter-syntax.htm
Perhaps Powershell can be handy. Something like this could do the trick:
#for just one group
get-adgroupmember -Recursive -Identity "domain admins"
#for a batch of groups
$adminsgroups = "Enterprise Admins","Domain admins"
foreach ($admingroup in $adminsgroups)
{
#with the recursive switch you get nested group members
get-adgroupmember -Recursive -Identity $admingroup
}
Currently I can do this in powershell via this script:
Search-ADAccount –LockedOut -SearchBase 'OU=location,OU=country,DC=company,DC=com' | ft Name, SamAccountName, LastLogonDate
I would rather have it in a LDAP saved query, I found this one to display all locked out accounts in the company:
(&(&(ObjectCategory=Person)(ObjectClass=User)(LockoutTime>=1)))
I have tried a number of combinations, but I can't seem to get it right. Here is one of them:
(&(&(ObjectCategory=Person)(ObjectClass=User)(memberof=OU=location,OU=country,DC=company,DC=com)(LockoutTime>=1)))
What am I doing wrong?
As information, when you create a new query, you have the option of specifying the "query root"... by drilling down with that, I was able to achieve the desired goal. I didn't have to modify the query string at all.
I would like to write a search filter which would help me retrieve all groups which a user is part of.
For instance:
Say I am retrieving entries for user A (which is part of group A). And group A may be part of group B and group D which in turn may be part of group E.
Now, my search filter should return me MemberOf attribute as all possible groups which user A is part of (in this specific case it is Group A, B, D, E).
Any pointers on how the search filter can look like?
This should do what you are asking about. It will return the FDN of each group the user is a memberOf, however, this queries the group, not the user.
As an example, to find all the groups that "CN=John Smith,DC=MyDomain,DC=NET" is a member of, set the base to the groups container DN; for example (OU=groupsOU,DC=MyDomain,DC=NET) and the scope to subtree, and use the following filter.
(member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=(CN=John Smith,DC=MyDomain,DC=NET))
-jim
There is an attribute called tokenGroups in user object. It's a constructed attributes calculated by Active Directory on the runtime. It includes all the groups the user object belong to.
Make sure your domain has a Global Catalog and make sure the account that you are using Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access group. Then, make sure tokenGroups is specified as one of the returned property. Do a base scope search on the user object.
You can use adfind.exe (joeware) to sort out this issue and to utilize standard ldap filters that are described here. For example:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5392.active-directory-ldap-syntax-filters.aspx
Group nesting is specified to be like this:
(member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=cn=Jim Smith,ou=West,dc=Domain,dc=com)
and if you use adfind, then it would look like this:
adfind -f "(member:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=cn=Jim Smith,ou=West,dc=Domain,dc=com)" samaccountname -list
If you want to have output other than samaccountname, for example displayname, or mail attribute, just add to the list. Also if you want to search multiple users, then you might want to have inputfile containing all users and some script to extract each lines to adfind for example.